Israel Active

Ten male and 10 female Arab students have been selected to take part in Bridgetech - a pre-academic program that aims to increase participation of Israel’s Bedouin populations into the country’s high-tech ecosystem.

For the first time, in the documentary My Home, we see life in Israel through those rarely heard from - the Israeli-Arab citizens who would never live anywhere else. Those Arab minorities who change the false narrative that Israel is an apartheid state, that minorities can’t succeed, that they have no rights. (trailer)

Recent improved relations between Israel and Egypt has initiated new projects in which Israel will assist Egypt’s fragile economy.  These include desalination, irrigation, solar energy and agriculture.

The inspiring story of 23-year-old Avi Rosenblum - born to African-American Christian parents in the United States. He was adopted by Jewish parents in California and is now a soldier in the IDF.

Italian journalist Giulio Meotti writes that Israel today has what most of Western countries don’t have, in terms of economic growth, security, internal dynamism and optimism.  He recommends that we should all move to Israel.

Twenty members of parliament from countries throughout Europe, Africa and Latin America attended the 5th annual Israel Allies Foundation in Jerusalem. During Succot they toured Eastern Jerusalem and the Cave of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs in Hebron.

In her Jewish New Year greeting, British Prime Minister Teresa May praised the relationship between the UK and Israel, in particular - bilateral trade, scientific research, security cooperation and shared values. She also said that she was determined to stamp out boycotts of Israeli goods and events.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Luxembourg Prime Minster Xavier Bettel in Jerusalem – the first visit to Israel of a Prime Minister from the tiny European state. They discussed increasing bilateral trade, which nearly doubled between 2014 and 2015.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu held a summit at the United Nations with the leaders of over 15 African countries. Afterwards, Israeli companies presented their technological developments to dozens of African ambassadors, senior UN officials and representatives from the private sector.

Israel’s Defense Forces are the standard for professionalism and valor. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in praising his country’s Special Forces paratroopers after operations against terrorists, said proudly that the Indian troops were as good as the IDF.